Carl Lewis Quotes
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Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated.
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.
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When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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If you practice for ten years, you may begin to please yourself, after 20 years you may become a performer and please the audience, after 30 years you may please even your guru, but you must practice for many more years before you finally become a true artist-then you may please even God.
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I really thought that love would save us all.
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I was invited to L.A. when I was 16 for a weekend-long songwriting session by a writer I had met through my voice teacher in Pittsburgh. My first hit, 'Hide Away,' was one of the songs written during those sessions. It was played for a radio rep who then started a new label; the song got a pretty organic start at radio and then took off.
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The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.
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A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.
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You can't live your life through your children.
